UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday announced the appointment of Italian diplomat Filippo Grandi as the new UN refugee chief, tasked with handling the world’s worst-ever refugee crisis. (Repubblica, France24) Who…
Jean Asselborn is ringing alarm bells. National egoism is usurping a sense of community, walls are being put up where borders were once open, and nationalism is taking precedence over…
Turkey has suggested a two-track plan to tackle the escalating international refugee crisis, including building entirely new cities for displaced people and founding an umbrella organization financed by all countries….
Central and eastern European leaders strongly opposed to attempts by Brussels and Berlin to impose refugee quotas are meeting Luxembourg’s foreign minister in Prague to discuss their reaction. (The Guardian)